West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-01-27

| un no longer PIONEERED about them. /
nave settled them i'm this way: I have made
mp my mind that N love Christ aud live an
honest aud useful life am elected 70 be
saved; and " do not love Christ and live a
oa9 lue am elected to bs damned,
| and all the theological institutions az
| the universe cannot , make IL nnv
different ] once fioated on that sen OF
| SIN aud doubt farther out than the 27G pas-
Sengers on the fourts zenith night when they
| threw the grain overheard: but Iiheard 81
the mercy OF God through Jesus Christ for
asinner. and / came in on that plank. and I
nave been warming myself by the great
genial fire OF Gospel comfort aud Gospel hope
am talking with an 1ther man about his
soul lie says 81 don't be6omS1 Christian
because don't believe there /, any hell. n
pie OF all beliefs and OF no beliefs, et good
morals aud OF bad morals go straight 20 a
haony Heaveni Do the holy and the de-
bauched haze tho same Distinction In hall
house-owner, and they both fire aud are
both wounded. The burglar instantly dies
Inc house owner suffers on for a week aud
| expires. Does the Burglar stand a. the gate
OF Heaven t. welc 'me in the hcuse-owner
when no comes uD, and say: "T beat you a
whole weak into Heavenr DO the lIbertineS
aud the debauched 60 amid the families of
Haven l wonder IL Herod is on the banks
OF the River Of Lifo PLAYING with the chill
1ren whom he massacre1 wonder IL Charles
Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth are i'm
| glory shoot nR at n mark l will not con-
! trovert IN Sc Oh 'ories lust now, but will saw
IN piSSlng that for such IN SCRABBLE and tor
| rthc II avon / have no ad niration. But
| where is the Bible passage that saws. "Be-
eve in perd ton and g saved,n Because all
are going u bNsave according 70 yot,r theory
are you discharged from tho duty OF loving
and serving Jesus Christi Because accord.
ing to your theory, all the o. hers are going
ashore do ycu refuse TO go ashorel BecauSe
YOU nave different theories about chemistry
about astronomy. about the atnos1here do
YOU refuse actionl Because you have A DIFF
ferent the ~ about light, do you refuse TO
open your eyesi Be ause you have
dinerent theory about atmosphere, do
you refuse 70 hrenthel Because YOU
have n different th-ory about the stellar
system. do You refuse to acknowledge the
Worth STAR Because you have n different
theory about religion, do Won refuse TO actl
" Won cannot come in on shin fashioned in
the theological drydocks, come in on a plank
Some on broken pieces Of the ship
am talking with another man about his
soil lie saws oh, don't believe in re-
viyalS" Then. my brother go to your room,
20 the door and all alone give your heart
u GOD and 'oin me church where the Their
moTeter never rises about fifty i'm the shaded
but l don't believe in baptism Then
come into the Kingd m of God without
~, ana settle that ordinance atterward. "But
mere arr so many inconsistent professors of
"ehoion Then come i'm. nnd by Vour ev-
ample show what n professor ought to be
But don't believe in the Old Testament
Come IN ON the new But 1 don't like the
and Luke. Your refusal to come
20 Christ whom you admit TO be
me Savior, because you cannot believe every.
thlng, uakes me think Of n man who, out IN
tl@ Medlterranean hurricane Just off the
sand of Melita should refuse to 90 ashore
'ntll he can get the whole ship fixed up
untl he can make up his mind where all
these loose planks belong. He says!
hNr sl.n.,
that windlass i'm the right place, and this
keel piece where il belongs, and all these
roNes disentangled aud this mast set up-
when get everything shipshape then I'll
come ashore Why, I'm an old sailor for
forty years 1 know all about a ship, and
when get the ship just right I'll come in
mere Is man floating on n plank and he
hears 1t and he says: MY friend YOU
WIZ drown out here il you wait til
you get that ship reconstructed Better do
as am doing. l know nothing about a
ship. never saw one till got aboard that
one L can't swim a stroke, but am coming
In ON TINS shtvered timber The man that
comes in on the plank is saved. The
man who stays out in the fling 10
mend the old ship is lost oh. nv
brother, let your smashed up theology
go 10 the bottom while you come In on a
sphntered spar. Some on broken pieces Of
the ship" l think-for am not talkiny on
abstraction-ther are n thousand men In this
mousse this morning in Just the mood and
mental condition that ] am now speak-
ing or and have been asked this
last week over and over again about
TINS and about that and about the other and
am told every day Of my life almost:
can ADOPT the whole system Of re igion, |
can't believe all you believe and therefore
can't become n Christian 80 | am sneak
ing at tremendous practicality-let me
say, my brother, you will probably get
your difficulties settled the way Garibaidi,
the magnetic Italian, got his gardens made
When the war broke out between Austria
an Sardinia, Garibaldi was living at Can
rera, rough, unCultured island home He
went forth with his sword 20 achieve tho lib
Grafton OF Sicily aud Naples and he gave
70 100000 OF people free govern
ment under Victor Emanuel Alter
two years absence in the war
Garlbaidi came back 20 his Island home and
as ne approached 40 he found that Victor
Emanuel as matter OF surprise had Edenized
the whole place. Trimmed shrubbery in
place Of thorny jungle. Beautiful gardens
aud terraces in place Of barrenness; and in
stead OF the old rookery where he once
lived there was a picturesque mansion where
he passed the rest Of his DAYS in
ease and luxury Oh, my brother, come
under the standard Of our Victor Emanuel
and follow Him through III ok nd thin and
hight His battles and endure His sacrifices
and you will find that your heart has been
hanged from jungle OF thoruy sceptIci sm
INTO garden abloom with luxuriant joys
such as you never dreamed of-fron, a
Caprera OF sadness and desolation into a
very Paradise ~ God / do not know how
your the Try went 20 pieces Perhaps your
tatner aud mother started YOU on n plank
tneY having no religion that amounted to
mu n OF their own. Or perhaps your parents
were TOO severe and rigid an cracked you
over the head with psalm book. Perhaps
you mad Business partner who was n
mem )er OF the church and he played on you
a very mean tricS, and ever sncs YOU have
Deen disguised W tn religion. Perhaps you
nave inidel assOci1t who are every dav
tax ng 5aiust Christianity until you are
all a. sea, aud you think more OF what
You do not believe than Of what vJu
40 believe, In On9 respect YOU are
IKE Lord Nelson, who wished In battle T.
~ regard certain 81 Snal, AMI he put hssea
glass 20 his bin ] eye aud slid az dol't sec
any signal that you speak Of On instead
or putting this field glass Of the gospel e.
your blind eyo aud sayinZ ~ can't 500 %
put It 10 your other eye, the aye
on faith, and you win sec Christ
ana seeing Him, you SEQ all. Whatever you
relieve or do n Il believe you certainly be-
lieve In vicariOus suffering for YOU zoe II
every day arOu ID you Ia some shape Last
month the steamship KnickerbOcker. Of the
cromwell line plying between New Orleans
aad here, got in great storm. and the Cap
s1iu saw that the schooner Mary ID Gran
mer, Of Phila ie pha was going on the rocks:
- the chief officer. the first0fiCerO OF the steam.
wv ana Tour men put out ia n lifeboat %
neip tno scnooner They came up near
wusie tl9 noon T was and "a haw.ar was
.hfp"n - the boat the sch Joner was steared
a"ayt t!"ed awaY from tins rocks Then
lh9 Wind shifted aud the schooner was in